POEM From New Science Fiction Book: THE CHOSEN

Cover Art By Greg Opalinski

I just finished chapter 4 of THE CHOSEN today. The title of the chapter is Loon's Story. At the end of that chapter there is a poem. It's called "We Are Not Alone", and in the book it is written by Shar, who was the spiritual leader of Loon before Fawn.

We Are Not Alone

From Volume II of the Rooms’ Series:  HARLEQUIN

Across the vast, black night of space

Past rocks and comets and suns

Beyond barriers of time and distance

We traveled

And arrived

On Loon

In a warp-laden space-truck

Raised and reared

By digital beings

And one of our own,

We became

From Light-years and Light-years away

Our essence soared

On a hope

A possibility

To Live

To Survive

Now here…

Can we forget?

Can we ignore…their existence?

On this two-moon

Two-sun planet,

Can we live

Open and Free

And not reach out?

Can we…?

NO.

We must…

Sisters and brothers everywhere,

Humans,

Existing on galaxy’s pond,

Were born to live

Under a sky

With mountains and oceans

And virgin waters clear

Can we

KNOW

And not share?

We must
Love

And help them home

We are not alone...
We are not alone…

Copyright © Bob Stegner 2014